STATE OF NEW YORK
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8816--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 9, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Judiciary -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to providing tenants
with the option to execute leases electronically
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section
2 226-d to read as follows:
3 § 226-d. Lease paper reduction election. Notwithstanding any contrary
4 service or delivery requirements of this section or any other provision
5 of law, in entering or renewing any lease or rental agreement, tenants
6 and renters may be given the option to receive and, as needed, execute
7 such lease or rental agreement, any required renewal, and any rider or
8 notice served under, or required by, the lease or any statute, code,
9 ordinance, or other authority, solely by electronic means. Those elec-
10 tronic documents shall have the same force and effect as would paper
11 originals. This election shall not apply to any service of process or
12 predicate notices in judicial proceedings.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13295-02-6
